Article Marketing: Where Should You Be Submitting?

You know that Google loves content, and not just any content – but written content.

So, you and/or your employees get serious and start writing good content for you customers.  Maybe you review a product in your service area, or maybe you give out some great tips.  You take that key word rich article and you put it on your website or blog… Then you think, is that it? 

No, that isn’t it.

You need to be Article Marketing!

Whoa, back-up, what did he just say?  “Article Marketing?”

Article Marketing simply means you write articles and you submit them to article directories for the entire community to consume.

Here are a couple article directory websites to help you get your article read by more than just the users that come to your website.

EzineArticles.com

Ezine is by far the most popular, and they are the most fanatical.  Every article that is submitted HAS to be original; that is, the article can’t exist on any other website by theirs.  This is good and bad.  The up side is the community (people on the internet) know this and know that if you have it on Ezine then it must not be total crap.  The down side is that you can’t even have it on your own website.  You have to submit to Ezine first, and once approved put it on your own website.

GoArticles.com

GoArticles is very popular and has a good following.  Their editors aren’t as fanatical, so you can have the article on your website first.  Just make sure on your website you put in the author’s name; which has to be the same as your pen-name on GoArticles.  This site is my current favorite.

ArticleBase.com

Another very popular article directory, but they have one major downside…  The links you put in your article are tagged as “no follow.”  That means the links won’t help your pagerank in the search engines.

There are many, many more article directories out there, but here are the top 10 based on popularity.

1. ezinearticles.com
2. articlesbase.com
3. buzzle.com
4. goarticles.com
5. helium.com
6. articlesnatch.com
7. articlealley.com
8. articledashboard.com
9. amazines.com
10. ideamarketers.com

If article marketing is apart of your current marketing startagy, contact Fonder Consulting and we can help you get rockin’!

One Response to “Article Marketing: Where Should You Be Submitting?”

1. Granison says:

   November 19, 2009 at 9:11 pm

   This is a very good article. Places on here that I haven’t heard of. I will incorporate them into my arsenal.